Function: next-overlay-change

next-overlay-change is a function defined in buffer.c.

Signature

(next-overlay-change POS)

Documentation

Return the next position after POS where an overlay starts or ends.

If there are no overlay boundaries from POS to (point-max), the value is (point-max).

Other relevant functions are documented in the overlay group.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 19.29.

Shortdoc

;; overlay
(next-overlay-change 1)
    e.g. => 20

Aliases

semantic-overlay-next-change (obsolete since 27.1)

Source Code

// Defined in /usr/src/emacs/src/buffer.c
{
  CHECK_FIXNUM_COERCE_MARKER (pos);

  if (!buffer_has_overlays ())
    return make_fixnum (ZV);

  return make_fixnum (next_overlay_change (XFIXNUM (pos)));
}